David Ross

As news spread overnight that Jon Lester had spurned Red Sox ownership in favor of the boy genius who once had escaped its employ dressed in a gorilla suit, another slightly less audacious scene began to spread across the Internet. We're talking about the scene in "Back to the Future Part II" where Marty McFly is catapulted ahead a quarter-century and shows up in 2015 to find a giant hologram billboard announcing that the Cubs had won the World Series. It stands as a delicious tease for Cubs fans, beaten-down zealots tied to the Curse of the Billy Goat, Steve Bartman and the same kind of absurd hocus-pocus that Red Sox fans held dear before 2004. It also might only be the...

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